Chester City Walls Repair Campaign Group
The Chester City Walls are "the oldest, longest and most complete in Britain, parts of which are almost 2000 years old", according to some sources in Chester.
They are a major tourist attraction in Chester as well as being a monument of national importance. Parts of the walls collapsed in January 2020 and remain collapsed. The Campaign Group was set up at that time and have sought to publicise the issues with the walls, some sections of which have been "propped" for years.
Chester
Chester has a long history of published guides to the City Walls. See the lists elsewhere on this site. Perhaps the best "old" guide is that by Frank Simpson, and is long out of print.
York
The Friends of York Walls was formed in early 2011 by a group of five of York’s residents who felt that “The [York] Walls” needed more support and promotion. The “friends” now number over 600, and in November 2014 the Friends of York Walls Community Group became a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation. They have a newsletter and are closely involved with the upkeep of the walls and their promotion. The group claims that York’s City Walls are the "finest and most complete of any town in England". Clearly both York and Chester cannot both have the most complete walls!
There is also a dispute over length. York claims to have the longest at over two miles (which Wikipedia also claims), whereas Chester claims "about two miles".
Sources and Links
Related Pages
- City Walls: a guide to the walls;
- Murengers: how the walls were maintained